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kenwhite.bsky.social
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.

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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · Nov 26
BREAKING:

“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the Court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara. Mr. Mazzara then conveyed that legal advice, as well as his own legal advice, to Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. See 6 U.S.C. § 113(a)(1)(J). After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. As explained below, that decision was lawful and was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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banditelli.org
I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.

Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
As Orin's great post reflects, one key to a good law school exam answer is to reason *through* the legal materials, esp. cases, rather than to reason independently and then just cite the cases, as many students do. The "truth" is stylized in this domain, and it's important to see that.
orinkerr.bsky.social Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · Nov 22
Especially for the 1Ls out there, preparing for their 1st set of law school exams, I wrote this post back in 2007 about how to get a good grade on a law school issue spotter. The post, "Bad Answers, Good Answers, and Terrific Answers," is available here:
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November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
More on the man illegally deported in violation of a court-approved settlement www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
He was protected from deportation by a legal settlement. Trump deported him anyway.
Court documents, news reports and pleas from his family reveal new details about the 20-year-old Venezuelan man a judge ordered returned from El Salvador.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church. The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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theatlantic.com
America’s climate catastrophe will leave many parts of the country uninhabitable. Vann R. Newkirk II reports on what life will be like for residents of these climate “dead zones,” which have already begun to reveal themselves: https://theatln.tc/CD8bgA0X
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Excellent reporting by Greg and @thenyt.bsky.social

It appears impossible to justify bombing the Venezuelan boats

Not only is the legal basis tenuous (we all know how well the “I was just following orders” defense goes)

The evidence that people in the boats are engaged in crimes is shaky as well
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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teamtalaricohq.bsky.social
James Talarico on 8,000+ volunteers joining his campaign: "It is going to take all of us to pull off this feat of winning Texas"
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Historically in the US, liberals being more secular is something of an aberration. It was more often the opposite right up until the televangelist era. Remembering the Confederacy as more churchgoing, for example, is total back projection. (see: John Brown, Battle Hymn, Lincoln's bible-quoting, etc)
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Nov 13
1. BREAKING

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions.

The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.
As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care. We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status. We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools. We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones. Despite obstacles and prejudices, generations of immigrants have made enormous contributions to the well-being of our nation. We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity. Catholic teaching exhorts nations to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons, including immigrants. We bishops advocate for a meaningful reform of our nation's immigration laws and procedures. Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together. We recognize that nations have a responsibility to regulate their borders and establish a just and orderly immigration system for the sake of the common good. Without such processes, immigrants face the risk of trafficking and other forms of exploitation. Safe and legal pathways serve as an antidote to such risks. The Church's teaching rests on the foundational concern for the human person, as created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:27). As pastors, we look to Sacred Scripture and the example of the Lord Himself, where we find the wisdom of God's compassion. The priority of the Lord, as the Prophets remind us, is for those who are most vulnerable: the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the stranger (Zechariah 7:10). In the Lord Jesus, we see the One who became poor for our sake (2 Corinthians 8:9), we see the Good Samaritan who lifts us from the dust (Luke 10:30-37), and we see the One who is found in the least of these (Matthew 25). The Church's concern for neighbor and our concern here for immigrants is a response to the Lord's command to love as He has loved us (John 13:34). To our immigrant brothers and sisters, we stand with you in your suffering, since, when one member suffers, all suffer (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:26). You are not alone! We note with gratitude that so many of our clergy, consecrated religious, and lay faithful already accompany and assist immigrants in meeting their basic human needs. We urge all people of good will to continue and expand such efforts. We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement. We pray that the Lord may guide the leaders of our nation, and we are grateful for past and present opportunities to dialogue with public and elected officials. In this dialogue, we will continue to advocate for meaningful immigration reform. As disciples of the Lord, we remain men and women of hope, and hope does not disappoint! (cf. Romans 5:5) May the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe enfold us all in her maternal and loving care and draw us ever closer to the heart of Christ.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: The First Circuit denies DOJ’s stay request in the SNAP case, refusing to stay the Nov. 6 enforcement order.

Justice Jackson’s 48-hour clock started just before midnight Sunday, meaning the administrative stay she issued Friday ends at the end of the day Tuesday.
But the district court did not order the government to use the Section 32 fund until November 6. It did so after it concluded that the government had failed to comply with its October 31 TRO. As a remedy for that noncompliance, the court ordered the government to make the full payment of November SNAP benefits by November 7. Thus, even if we were to stay the second TRO, the government could not obtain the relief that it seeks unless it also meets its burden under the stay factors as to the enforcement order. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the government has failed to meet the stay factors as to the enforcement order, and we deny a stay of that order. In any event, the district court has now found that the government failed to comply with that October 31 TRO, from which no stay was sought and no appeal was taken that would have prevented the order from taking effect during the period of alleged noncompliance. Thus, for present purposes, the question that the government's motion to stay the enforcement order presents is this: Has the government made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed in establishing either (a) that the district court erred in finding noncompliance with the October 31 TRO or (b) that, insofar as it did not err in that regard, it could not order full funding in consequence of that noncompliance? As we have explained, the answer is no. In the single paragraph it devotes in its stay motion to addressing the enforcement order, the government does not make a strong showing of likely success in either respect. And in the only other passage of the stay motion that could be read to address the finding of noncompliance, the government fails to grapple with the actual basis for that finding.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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danielahorwitz.bsky.social
I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
Highlighted segment of Sixth Circuit opinion: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0307p-06.pdf
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.”

Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
188. Five Questions About "Extrajudicial Killings"
There is no obvious legal argument to support President Trump's expanding campaign of strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. And the implications are even scarier.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
Add child kidnaspping to the ICE Nuremburg file.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski
Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE
www.gofundme.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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caioalmendra.bsky.social
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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yazikus.bsky.social yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · Oct 29
🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
caioalmendra.bsky.social Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · Oct 29
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.

Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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caioalmendra.bsky.social
Today, common people from Penha entered the woods on one side of the mountain. The region is called Pedreira, as it is an inactive quarry.

They found 60+ dead bodies. Some with clear marks of torture. A beheaded young male. Most shot in the back and in the head.

The total count is between 121-128+
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Especially when the lies are about the government terrorizing Black & Brown kids happening across the country. It's why we wrote this op-ed
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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eunicehcho.bsky.social
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
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October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social
"In the West Bank and Jerusalem, far from Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 19,000 Palestinians were swept up since Oct. 7. As of this month, more than 11,000 Palestinians were still locked up in Israeli prisons, almost a third of them under “administrative detention,” without charges or a trial."
mskathleenquinn.bsky.social mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · Oct 16
"There must be pressure to end the unsparing detention of the thousands of Palestinians held in Israel’s prisons, many under conditions that defy international laws mandating humane treatment of detainees."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
Reading—really reading—is and ought to be and always will be hard.

There are things you can read quickly and enjoy. But the texts that truly reward reading take time, and there‘s no shortcut.
rachelfeder.bsky.social Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · Oct 13
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM